Description: Snout rounded. Rostral bent over the snout between the rather large nasals, forming a suture with the prrefrontal, which is twice as broad as long; frontal a little longer than broad, a little longer than the prrefrontal, two thirds the length of the parietals; one pre- and two postoculars; an elongate anterior temporal; five upper labials, third bordering the eye; chin-shields small, the anterior a little sborter than the posterior and in contact with three lower labial; Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 178; anal divided; subcaudals 23. Blackish olive above, the lateral scales whitish in the centre; upper lip and a triangular patch from behind the labials to the outer border of the parietal white; lower parts white, the shields edged with dark olive. Total length 520 millim; tail 43 (from BOULENGER 1903).

Type species: Poecilopholis cameronensis BOULENGER 1903 is the type species of the genus Poecilopholis BOULENGER 1903.

Etymology

References

Boulenger, G.A. 1903. Descriptions of new snakes in the collection of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) 12: 350-354 - get paper here